Read full poem →My love and I would lie
And see the coloured counties,
And hear the larks so high
Dictionary Entry
To give something color.
In a Sentence
“We could color the walls red.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. colouredpeople colouredplates colouredglass colouredman colouredflowers colouredcoloured brightlycoloured highly
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Poetry examples for “coloured”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When Severn down to Buildwas ran
Coloured with the death of man,
Couched upon her brother's grave
Read full poem →My love and I would lie
And see the coloured counties,
And hear the larks so high
Read full poem →She held a little cithern by the strings,
Shaped heartwise, strung with subtle-coloured hair
Of some dead lute-player
Read full poem →Strange as sleep and pale as death and fair as life,
Shifts the moonlight-coloured sunshine on the sea.
Read full poem →All round the sad red blossoms smoulder,
Flowers coloured like the fire, but colder,
In sign of sweet things taken hence;
Read full poem →Most fervent-fresh of all the singing spheres,
And April-coloured through all months and years.
Read full poem →"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity."
Read full poem →To be forgotten in the woven strand
Which grows the multi-coloured tapestry
Of your bright life, and through its tissues lie